When:June 25-29, 2018 from 9:00 – 12:10pm (Check in starts at 8:40am) Where:OC Evangelical Church, 1024 Linn Ave., Oregon City, OR 97045 (503)656-8582 Who:Children entering Kindergarten through those entering grade 6 (Fall 2018) Cost:$15 per child The link has the registration o...
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I know my concupiscent heart desires both to be drawn to Jesus’s heart and to the stone heart of the world in materialistic pleasures. In avoiding the narrowness of the path, I become more narrow by not expanding my trust. Jesus speaks of a narrowness that implies a focus, and not t...
After my aunt’s accident, Portland Oregon became my home away from home. I traveled there so much that I went from being one of the ‘huddled-masses’ passengers to a Skymiles® Elite member. Ok, so nobody asked for my autograph. But I did get to board the plane early and had a...
The police are not there to protect the margins. They are there to protect the “proper” people, the church going people, the people who sound educated and of a proper class. The people of Jesus are there to support the margins. Perhaps we should let the police do their job, away fro...
Church, Clarendon Hills, Illinois; The Kettle Moraine Parish, Waukesha County, Wisconsin; Southminster Presbyterian Church, Waukesha, Wisconsin; Crossroads Presbyterian Church, Mequon, Wisconsin. And the place where I am now, for twelve years, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Portland, Oregon. ...
We were driving a main street through Portland, Oregon on a winter day in the late 1970’s. This particular road consisted of five wide lanes, two each headed in opposite directions with a central turn lane. It was a quieter morning than most, less traffic than usual, because Portland, ...
a master practitioner of the byzantine form of politics followed in the Deep South; Jesus of Nazareth, an influential populist religious leader with ties in the disputed territories of the Middle East; and the prominent American religious revivalist Elmer Gantry.Continue readingGird your loins: the ...
” Her husband was right. But she summoned her strength from somewhere else too. Her faith. Even though she was mad at God at the moment for this train-wreck of a diagnosis, she went to church to talk to her pastor. He basically repeated what her husband had told her. Dr. Latanja ...
“In baptism our gracious heavenly Father frees us from sin and death by joining us to the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are born children of a fallen humanity; by water and the Holy Spirit we are reborn children of God and made members of the church, the body ...